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Pennsylvania couple kept young sons locked in cellar for days, cops say
NY Post ^ | May 7, 2021 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 05/07/2021 12:16:19 PM PDT by conservative98

A cruel Pennsylvania couple kept their three young sons locked in an empty coal cellar called “the hole” for days at a time, police said.

Richard Hayes, 37, of Mount Oliver, and Natosha Bell, 26, of Rankin, were arrested Wednesday at McClure Elementary School in White Oak, where Hayes’ 11-year-old son refused to get into his car at dismissal time, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

The frightened boy said he didn’t want to be handcuffed again as he clung to a school employee, a witness told police.

Hayes opened the minivan’s door and a school employee spotted the couple’s two other children, ages 7 and 10, both in handcuffs, according to the complaint.

White Oak police detained the couple and said Hayes also had a loaded handgun with him. Allegheny County police took the three boys into emergency custody and they later told authorities at a hospital of the brutal treatment they endured, according to the complaint.

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Police said “the hole” was actually an empty coal cellar that had no lights or water and a concrete floor.

Another room in the basement was also referred to as “the cell,” the boys told police while describing the bucket they were forced to use as a toilet. The 7-year-old boy said he was locked away in the room without mattresses or pillows for taking food when he was hungry, the complaint states.

The 7-year-old also said Hayes forced his head underwater in a bathtub, which he admitted to investigators, according to the complaint. Hayes also reportedly told cops he made the three boys sleep on a basement floor and that he had handcuffed them

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KEYWORDS: abusers; blm; childabuse; handcuffs; pennsylvania; prison; punishment; slavery
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To: BobL

Trash comes in all colors.


21 posted on 05/07/2021 1:41:47 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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To: conservative98

Just protecting them from Covid. /S


22 posted on 05/07/2021 1:59:36 PM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Make America Great. Prosecute Dems who break the law!)
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To: Salamander

If mommy was the 11 year old’s mommy, then he was born when she was 15, almost certainly conceived at 14. And daddy was 26.


23 posted on 05/07/2021 2:07:22 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: BobL

funny how certain descriptions of crime conjure up a certain “look”...because like you, I would have guessed white trash....


24 posted on 05/07/2021 2:16:45 PM PDT by cherry (we are the dominionated)
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To: BobL
Typically, it’s white trash, but not this time, I guess.


25 posted on 05/07/2021 2:19:24 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: BobL

Yeah, I totally guessed wrong.


26 posted on 05/07/2021 2:33:29 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: conservative98

Maybe they were just trying to teach them how it was to be slaves.


27 posted on 05/07/2021 2:37:51 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: conservative98

That may indeed be, but it’s more than just “abuse” IN Guessing.

If it’s broken down, I’m betting “secret torture” is higher for whites than blacks. Blacks are good at overt, open and instantaneous abuse. They generally act on impulse regardless of who is a witness. And the witnesses are used to that abuse so they don’t care.


28 posted on 05/07/2021 2:40:13 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: conservative98

I can’t stand that retard.


29 posted on 05/07/2021 3:54:26 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: 17th Miss Regt

And that’s not messed up at all.

O.o


30 posted on 05/07/2021 5:09:24 PM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Well he did drive up to the school out in the open with 2 kids in handcuffs.


31 posted on 05/07/2021 5:13:13 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

That was pretty brazen. I don’t think he meant to be seen, but cuffs is usually meant only for private!

I still hold to my prejudices. Whites do slower and secretive torture. Blacks don’t care about brazen screaming and hitting as soon as they are offended. That includes smacking the kids around. After all, this is done in comedy skits all the time.


32 posted on 05/07/2021 5:48:43 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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